Tom Cruise snapped leaping between boats in Venice for Mission: Impossible film

Tom Cruise is famous for doing his own stunts, and new photos show him pulling off a tricky feat in Venice.

Tom Cruise has been photographed leaping between water taxis in Venice.

The actor is currently in the Italian city filming scenes for the seventh Mission: Impossible movie which is due for release in 2022.

One giant leap for mankind. Picture: Marco Sabadin/AFP

Tom Cruise in Venice. Picture: Backgrid

Tom has a spring in his step. Picture: Cobra Team/Backgrid

Cruise has been making headlines in recent months with a series of challenging stunts for the film.

In September, he wowed onlookers after completing four jumps with a motorcycle from a huge ramp on the Helsetkopen mountain in Norway.

He attempted a similar stunt in the UK a month earlier.

Cruise is famous for doing his own stunts in the Mission: Impossible movies.

One of the most dangerous was when he was strapped to an Airbus A400M plane as it took off, which appeared in 2015’s Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation.

“When we proposed it to Airbus, they said it was impossible,” director Christopher McQuarrie told The New York Times. “And our approach was to say, ‘Well, if we were going to do it, how would it be done?’ And once people start to consider the possibilities, it’s a slippery slope to the place where they find themselves doing what they deemed impossible.

Tom Cruise strapped to the side of an Airbus.

“Tom’s wearing a harness under the suit. But of course the harness doesn’t protect him from the real dangers of the sequence. One, if the pilot overaccelerates the plane, there’s no harness in the world that’s going to keep Tom on the plane. The other danger is any debris on the runway. Tom was struck by a pebble. He said it was like being shot. And the real danger is bird strikes. If a bird flew past and struck Tom, it would be like a cannonball. The exhaust from the engines is extremely punishing and very toxic.

“And finally, Tom is wearing earplugs and contact lenses,” McQuarrie told The New York Times. “They cover half of his eye – they’re not like the little lenses that just cover your iris. So he couldn’t really see. He couldn’t really hear. I would have to direct him with very large gestures and communicate in the simplest possible way. And Tom said to me, ‘If I look like I’m panicking, I’m acting. Don’t cut. Only if I tap my head’ – he put his palm on top of his head – ‘it means something’s wrong.’ There was one point at which Tom brushed his hair out of his face, and we were wondering, is he just fixing his hair, or is something wrong?”